Editors/admins who are regularly rude to others are
not only
tolerated by most of the community, they often have a group of
supporters around them always ready to praise everything they do,
manipulating RfCs and other voting (sorry, !voting) situations.
Do you think that civility blocks and bans pre-arbcom will help the
situation at all?
If we want to make WP more friendly, we have to make
sure admins and
high-profile editors are actually trying to BE friendly. If they
can't handle that, they shouldn't be working in a collaborative
environment.
Exactly the reason why I support civility blocks.
Emily
On Sep 18, 2009, at 5:44 PM, Matt Jacobs wrote:
Having been bitten multiple times, I can definitely
say the unfriendly
atmosphere has been a problem for a while now. Editors/admins who are
regularly rude to others are not only tolerated by most of the
community,
they often have a group of supporters around them always ready to
praise
everything they do, manipulating RfCs and other voting (sorry, !
voting)
situations. A newbie running afoul of these people rarely even gets
token
sympathy if they try to get the problem addressed. The handful of
editors
who try to address these situations have to wade through multiple
attacks
and allegations just to try and do the right thing.
If we want to make WP more friendly, we have to make sure admins and
high-profile editors are actually trying to BE friendly. If they
can't
handle that, they shouldn't be working in a collaborative environment.
In addition, I believe that templates are 1) often not worded in a
friendly
manner, and 2) overused. Using a template when there isn't a very
good
reason to is going to often be perceived as rude, especially if an
article
they've worked hard on has just been speedy deleted.
If WP is going to continue to gain editors, it has to do better.
Sxeptomaniac
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 09:36:24 -0400
From: Sage Ross
Subject: [WikiEN-l] Newbie and not-so-newbie biting
To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
This isn't a new issue by any means, but here's a nice post by
someone
who's been contributing occasionally since 2004, about how daunting
"wikibullying" can be for newbies and other editors who aren't
well-versed in the procedures and processes.
http://travel-industry.uptake.com/blog/2009/09/04/bullypedia-a-wikipedian-w…
Unfriendliness is built into the system, even when admins and others
who enforce the rules are perfectly civil and try to be friendly at
an
individual level.
-Sage
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